2008年6月28日

徹底トレーニング英会話2008年06月16日(月)

今、あなたに必要なのは、毎日練習することです。
All you need now is daily practice.

【今日のスキット】
Jack:
△Thanks a lot of salad, Laura. That was great.
===> Thanks a lot for the salad, Laura. That was great.

「サラダをたくさんありがとう」なら「Thanks for a lot of salad.」となるはず。
今回の「a lot」はサラダではなく「Thanks」に対するもの(「Thanks」を強調するもの)なのでこの語順となります。

Laura:
○Well, thank you for the pizza. It was delicious.
===> Well, thank you for the pizza. It was delicious.

Jack:
○They're great, aren't they?
===> They're great, aren't they?
△They're sold in the frozen foods section of the store.
===> They're sold in the frozen food section of the store.
○But once you cook them, they taste like fresh-baked ones.
===> But once you cook them, they taste like fresh-baked ones.

Kenta:
×Yeah, no one glad with use the oven to try to dry your shoes.
===> Yeah, now I'm glad we didn't use the oven to try to dry your shoes.

Hiroko:
△You must have been pretty desperated ** dry your shoes if you were going to do that.
===> You must have been pretty desperate to dry your shoes if you were going to do that.
○Why don't you try--
===> Why don't you try--

desperate 必死の、絶望的な
発音、アクセントに注意しましょう。動詞は「despair」です。

Kenta:
○Don't even say it. We thought of everything.
===> Don't even say it. We thought of everything.
△We look at that from every angle, and ******* just no way to dry the *** tonight.
===> We looked at it from every angle, and there's just no way to dry them out tonight.

Jack:
△Yeah, I've resigned myself to put it on soggy shoes in the morning and squissy may way to a shoe store.
===> Yeah, I've resigned myself to putting on soggy shoes in the morning and squishing may way to a shoe store.

squish びしゃびしゃ音を立てて進む
形容詞の「squishy」は以前に出てきましたね。

【Let's Listen and Write!】
(1) 40歳になったらすぐ、定期的に健康診断を受けるべきだ。
○Once you turn 40, you should have regular medical checkups.
===> Once you turn 40, you should have regular medical checkups.

(2) 話し終えるとすぐに、僕はいつも相手の名前を忘れてしまう。
○I always forget people's names once I finish talking with them.
===> I always forget people's names once I finish talking with them.

(3) 日が沈んだとたんに、かなり冷えてきた。
△It begin quite chilly once the sun went down.
===> It became quite chilly once the sun went down.

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